As we were leaving the office Friday, word came down that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement) got what they wanted from the U.S. Supreme Court: a ruling that, for now, stays those congressional and state House and Senate maps drawn up by U.S…
By 2021 the city of Dallas hopes to have 1,296 miles of here-to-there dedicated to cyclists, 456 of which would be off-road — trails, let’s say. Which leaves the rest, 840 miles, spread up and down the cracked concrete, bike lanes and cycle tracks chief among the options. So, then,…
Like I said earlier this week, when city attorneys had city council members behind closed doors this week, one of their topics of conversation was the National Solid Wastes Management Association’s federal antitrust lawsuit against the city over flow control — you know, that ordinance steering all solid waste collected…
Only last week, following the Wilco-Nick Lowe two-fer, we asked: Why isn’t the Music Hall at Fair Park, long ago a popular venue for pop music, used for more concerts? At which point we were told: That’s certainly a possibility. Matter of fact, said Jayne Basse, who books the joint…
Last I looked, Sylvan Thirty — the proposed mixed-use development across the street from the Belmont — was closer to conceptual than actual. As in: Short a few million, developer Brent Jackson more than likely will have to partner with the city to actually get the thing built, as we…
Technically, the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t yet made a decision about whether it will close the processing center at the main post office near Sylvan and IH-30, just one of several local sites it’s considering shuttering as it looks to move operations to the Coppell and Fort Worth plants instead…
Yesterday, during my occasional and futile shift on the Rick Perry firing squad, I unloaded most of my ammunition on Perry’s impossibly ignorant rant about Obama’s plan to protect gay people overseas — an act Perry deemed as an attack on “traditional American values.” By the time I finished firing,…
Rudy got to this before I could, but no matter: What you see above was made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which had a dinner this week to which I am sure Schutze’s invite was lost in the mail. Long story short: Dallas is kickin’ ass. We have “attitude.” We’re…
On Monday a few Friends of Unfair Park seemed a little humbugged to hear that the Dallas Police Department, along with the mayor and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, would prefer you buy non-black-market items for your Christmas list this year. Nonetheless, DPD Chief David Brown, undeterred, stopped by…
At yesterday’s meeting, the council-appointed drilling task force grappled with some of the more divisive issues in front of them — and actually nailed down what they’ll recommend the council do about set-back distances and allowing disposal wells for produced frack water. As they deliberated, anti-drilling activists in the audience…
Here’s the president yesterday, decrying not-minor human-rights violations against gays overseas (from the Washington Times):”I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered] persons around the world — whether it is passing laws that criminalize LGBT status, beating citizens simply for joining peaceful LGBT…
Yesterday afternoon the Arts Culture and Libraries Committee took its quick tour of the construction site that will soon be the City Performance Hall, which they hope somebody might want to rent out at some point. City council members Ann Margolin, Jerry Allen and Delia Jasso called their committee meeting…
At present, the Hall of State in Fair Park is closed to the public whilst it breaks down the “Texas!” exhibit that went up in time for, and lingered well after, the State Fair of Texas and attracted some 120,000 visitors during its run. But when it reopens at the…
It’s been nearly six months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton issued a memo to his subordinates, which we’ll translate from bureaucrat-speak for you: Look, we got scarce resources, so don’t head out into the field looking to pop every Tomas, Diego and Enrique you find without…
Yesterday the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation sent word: The deck park would be receiving its first trees this morning, at ’round 10:30. I was told that despite the cold temperatures, the timing was good: “This season is the preferred time to plant because leaves are gone so the trees will…
The answer is no, the question being: Will we ever stop writing about the city redistricting process? But it’s been a little while, so let’s review. Then we can discuss the dueling delegations who apparently met with the Department of Justice last week to discuss the (barely) council-approved map forwarded…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will go behind closed doors to meet with city attorneys about a host of legal issues staring down City Hall, among them: a long-going federal wrongful arrest suit about to get even more expensive (council will vote next week to pay Brown & Hofmeister an…
One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, ’07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it’s time for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price to go…
Back in June, Schutze laid out his case against the under-construction City Performance Hall in the Arts District, which is set to open in September 2012 and serve as a home for six tiers’ worth of small- to mid-sized arts orgs in need of fancier digs. Today the council’s newly…
This holiday season, City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office would like to remind you not to buy your gifts out of the trunks of cars or through sketchy-seeming eBay sellers. At a packed press conference at City Hall this morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings,…
A couple of months back the council’s Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas’s workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the “wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?” Said the briefing, reiterating a familiar catchphrase uttered in recent years, the city’s…
Schutze’s must-read of the winter has finally arrived: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dallas Floodway Environmental Assessment, in which we finally get a good look at the city and HNTB’s $30 million in proposed fixes for the Trinity River’s levees. Not sure when Jim will turn in his report;…
